Testing a link's target attribute with Capybara/RSpec
capybara, rspec
Solution
I am not sure why your code does not work. Have you tried this:
find_link('link_text')[:href].should == 'url'
find_link('link_text')[:target].should == '_blank'
Problem
I'm a bit new to Rails/RSpec/Capybara, so this is probably a newbie question, but Google didn't help as much as I would have hoped. I was hoping that I could use ``` it { should have_link('link text', href: 'url', target: '_blank') } ``` to write a test for a link that should open in a new window, but that doesn't seem to work. I've also tried wrapping the options hash in curly-braces: ``` it { should have_link('link text', {href: 'url', target: '_blank'}) } ``` The test will always succeed regardless of the presence or value of the target attribute in the actual page and link being tested. Changing the href attribute does cause a test failure as expected. I thought the options hash for have_link was a list of attributes to test for. Apparently I'm wrong, but what's the best way to test a single link for it's target attribute? Hopefully it's not to use an XPath search...